Dice Ideal Employer Rankings 2017

Welcome to the 2017 Dice Ideal Employer rankings. Our annual rankings track the employers that technology professionals most want to work for and admire.

Almost 5,500 tech professionals told us their top 3 ideal employers, what they perceived their key strengths to be, and the most important attributes they look for in an ideal employer.

More granular rankings and analysis will be revealed throughout October and November, including location, company sector (including Tech, Finance, Business Services and Consumer), gender and generations.

Dice Ideal Employer Research Methodology

Our 2017 Ideal Employer research was conducted via an online survey tool between June 2017 and August 2017. In total, the survey garnered 5,477 respondents across the United States. 15,878 valid votes for ideal employers were cast with a total mention of 3,474 different companies.

The main question asked respondents to identify their top three ideal employers and was an open-text field with predictive data entry. Respondents were then asked to rank 21 company and role attributes based on importance. Finally, respondents rated their ideal employers on these same attributes.

To ensure statistical validity of the results, 30+ votes per company were required for major rankings (e.g., region) and 10+ votes per company were required for minor rankings (e.g., company sector). 65+ votes per company were required for deeper analysis into company ratings across attributes, including key strengths.

Companies were assessed based on their individual attribute strengths (high to low) and by using a benchmark of the average strengths for the Top 30 Ideal Employers. “Key Strengths” for a company were determined based on where they were strong relative to this benchmark.

Where companies had divisions or acquisitions that received too few votes to stand alone, they were combined into the parent company. An example would be Pixar Animation Studios, which was rolled up under Walt Disney.